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· 7/28/1977

Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol v. Louis Nizer, Doubleday & Co., Inc. And Fawcett Publications, Inc.

Citations

  • 560 F.2d 1061
  • 195 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 273
  • 2 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2269
  • 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 12241

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  • reversing grant of summary judgment to defendants because of factual uncertainties with respect to the substantiality of the use, the purpose of copying entire letters and long passages verbatim, and the effect of the book’s publication on the future market for the letters
  • First Amendment requires reckless-disregard-of-truth standard to be applied to public figure's invasion of privacy claim
  • First Amendment requires reckless‐disregard‐of‐truth standard to be applied to public figure’s invasion of privacy claim
  • \In the course of extensive public debate revolving about the Rosenberg Trial [their children] were cast into the limelight and became public figures under the Gertz standards\

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Judges: Moore, Smith, Mulligan

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